Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-16
NOTE AND COMMENT.

the Chicago anarchists must hang. All
decent men will rejoice at the decision.
Stanley has again been heard from.
His letter was dated July Il, when he
was ten-days' march in the interior of
Africa and making good progress.
The Salvation Army has effected a
Judgement in India and Gen. Booth calls
for 5000 volunteers for campaigns in Zu-
luland and South America.
Carlisle's friends want him for chair
man of the ways and means committee
of the national House of Representatives
and propose that another be elected
speaker.
Albert Griffin, chairman of the national
anti-saloon Republican committee, thinks
the next Republican national convention
will take strong ground on the liquor
question.
The press of the State is almost unit
in demanding the reason why judges of
the Supreme court ride on railroad passes.
No satisfactory explanation has yet APP
peared.
The State Gettysburgh monument COM
mission acknowledges further gifts !:
From Hon. b. b. Smalley, Burlington,
500; L. a. Woodbury., same place, $50.
The latter is a one-armed veteran.
Robert 7. Lincoln is the leading second
choice for President among the Repub-
licans, in the opinion of the Philadelphia
News, which regards Senator Sherman
as nowhere in comparison.
One of Rutland's policemen was arrest
ed for intoXication, the other day, and,
pleading guilty, disclosed on a grand jur-
Or Knight of Labor rule is the trouble
with the town, apparently.
Ex-Gov. Luke Blackburn of Kentucky
died on Wednesday, aged II. He is the
man who tried to introduce yellow fever
and smallpox into the Union army and
Northern cities during the war.
Shockingly brutal treatment of con-
victs has been proved in Georgia, where
they are farmed out to railroad contract
ors and Others requiring considerable
number of men. Civilization and the
South get acquainted slowly, in spots.
The horse fair at Rutland last week
proved too much for the reporters of some
of our esteemed contemporaries. One of
them rendered ''b. f., ebay foal"; while
by another we find the expression IS. t
b. Hambletonian."
Henry George is an adept at abolishing
poverty so far as he himselfis concerned
according to New York paper, which
says that he has made $4,000 the pas
year and saved it, and says, further, thai
DIR. McGlynn pays 500 month for his
cash.
1t is so seldom that an Addison county
man goes into literature that the an
nouncement of Il book by one is worthy
of notice. The Forest and Stream Pub
fishing Co., New York, will have ready
shortly "Uncle Lisha's Shop, or Life il
a Corner of fankeeland," by Rowland
f. Robinson, member of the well-knowl
Ferrisburgh family of that name.
Few appreciate the extent of the Alas
kan seal fisheries. Recent investigation
by government officers show that Their
were almost seven millions of breedin,
seals on st. Paul and st. George island
alone last spring. The number of skin
taken last year by the lessee was 1000
and marauders are believed to have cap
tured $4,000.
The Republicans of New York had
harmonious State convention at Saratog
Wednesday. Col. Fred Grant was nom
mated for secretary of state. The fol
lowing resolution, introduced by DR.
Howard Crosby, was voted down: "Re
solved, That the Republican party be
lieves that the cause of temperance
best served by high license or tax, an
pledges itself to do all in its power t
secure such system for this State"
1t is reported that the President, e>
Speaker Randall and Speaker Carlisl
, have had Il conference on tariff matter
and that the measure of "reform
J agreed upon by these gentry includes tn
, abolition of the tax on tobacco and fru